Charlotte Hemingway

Institute of Research for Development | IRD

Agriculture in the region of Rapthadu (Anantapur district, state of Andhra Pradesh) in dryland Southern India has evolved at the expense of important social, economic and technical inequalities. Since the 1950’s, the Indian government has made strong political choices and implemented an agrarian reform, a “yellow” agricultural revolution (aimed at...

Since the 1950’s, agriculture in India has undergone many ‘revolutions’. In Anantapur, a dryland area in Southern India, the Yellow, Green and White revolutions focused on boosting the production of groundnut, rice and milk respectively. Those revolutions have not impacted farms in the same way but the role of livestock has changed substantially, m...

In East Africa, pastoralist systems are undergoing rapid transformation due to land enclosures, benefit distributions associated with new land uses, shifting social relations, and changing authority and governance structures. We apply a critical analysis of the institutions that mediate access and benefits across a complex mosaic of property relati...

A carbon footprint assessment, combining scales of analysis and territorial assessments, is proposed to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from crops and livestock in an Indian village impacted by both Green (for crops) and White (for milk) revolutions. It is based on GHG assessment of 10 cropping systems, 8 livestock farming systems and 9...

This study documents the causes and processes behind the uptake of crop cultivation by a Maasai community of southern Kenya which, until recently, was still devoted to full-time mobile livestock keeping. Based on the methods of comparative agriculture and a detailed quantification of household income from livestock and cash crops, a classification...